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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Elasmobranchii (class)  »  Rajiformes (order)  »  Dasyatidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 035032 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Urogymnus acanthobothrium   Last, White & Kyne, 2016
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Family: 37 35 Dasyatidae (Stingrays) - show full list Standard Name: [a stingray] Organism Type: a stingray Synonyms: Himantura sp 5 [Last et al 2016, fig 3] Urogymnus sp 5 [Last et al 2016, fig 5] Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Estuarine Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Parent Codes: 37 035908     Urogymnus spp.

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2022-08-09. Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 2 to 60 m.

Taxon Notes:

Described from a specimen collected in Cambridge Gulf, WA, 15°33′ S, 127°59′ E. Juveniles collected in 2.2-8.7m from lower reaches of Wildman and West Alligator Rivers, NT, the lower Ord R. and West Arm of Cambridge Gulf, WA. An adult female was recorded in marine waters at a depth of 60 m east of the Wessel Islands (11°18′ S, 137°00′ E), NT. Subadult specimens caught in the Gulf of Papua were from depths of 10–20 m.

Identifiers:

WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1006793 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-08-21 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source and Scientific Name verified against:

LAST, PETER R., WHITE, WILLIAM T., KYNE, PETER M., 2016. Urogymnus acanthobothrium sp. nov., a new euryhaline whipray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa, Vol. 4147: 162. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4147.2.4